LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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The Nature of Stress in English Language
A Study from a Perspective of Rule-Governed Approach

Sardar Fayyaz ul Hassan

Abstract

This paper aims to focus on the stress pattern in English Language (EL). Learning the rules of stress in EL is a complex phenomenon. This article is an endeavor to look at this complex phenomenon in detail. The paper describes the rules both, in words and sentence levels. It gives information about the placement of stress in content and function words. The issue of primary and secondary stress has been discussed in the article. This research work presents too, the context, in which weak form words are stressed. The whole research work is done with the hope that the non-native speakers of English will get insight in learning the rules of stress and the work can also be utilized as guidelines for more scientific research in this area.

Keywords: Rules of stress, Words & Sentence stress, Syllable & Stress timed languages, Content & Function Words' stress, weak form words

1. Introduction

In language learning process, speech is very important. The child learns to speak before he is capable of writing something that he understands. Language is, first a spoken not a written thing. It appeals to the ear, not to the eye. Thousands and thousands of years before nobody ever thought of representing sound by visible signs. People communicated with one another by word of mouth. They talked and listened ages before there was anything for them to read. In the long history of the human race, the invention of writing was the event of yesterday. It is clear that all language learning starts from speech training, which should come first before learning to read in point of time as well as the point of importance.

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Sardar Fayyaz ul Hassan
Buraydah Community College
Qassim University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
sardarfayyazulhassan@gmail.com
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